Word: waxing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days before the phonograph, composers who wanted to have their music preserved for future generations had to write it down on paper. Now, thanks to recording machines, music can be engraved directly on the surface of wax discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
...their art with mixed emotions. Some throw up their hands and declare that the art of composition is done for. Others see the possibility of a new method of composing, envision composers of the future short-cutting to sound itself, creating not compositions on paper, but recordings in wax...
Back to his baton after three years of musical silence went wax-mustached Bandmaster Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, lieutenant governor of Washington. Said he, after leading his brand-new band in Seattle's Trianon Dance Hall: "It's all right to be lieutenant governor...
...whirlpools of cooling, erupting gas on the sun, called sunspots, wax and wane in cycles of about eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...
...provide the money for a pendulum to occupy nine stories in the unused shaft. The chromium-plated bob weighs 30 pounds, makes one back-&-forth oscillation through an arc of about six feet every twelve seconds. At the centre of the swing, the bob passes close to a waxed indicator table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque, it is held...